"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
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"I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it."
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
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"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves."
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"Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it."
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
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"We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us."
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."
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"Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain."
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"Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation."
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"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old"
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"This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."
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"This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
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"What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!"
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"Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world."
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"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
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"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
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"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."
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